It’s all about the candidate engagement… now and for the future

{ 01/28/2013 @ 11:18 pm } · { Awards, Candidate Engagement, Candidate Experience, Effectiveness, Recruitment, Social Media, Social recruiting }
{ Tags: Awards, Effectiveness, Facebook, RADS, Recruitment, Social Media, Social Recruiting, Twitter }

Candidate Engagement. It’s vital these days. It’s the key to employer loyalty. It seems to be the buzz of 2013. But hasn’t it always been? It’s not all about the attraction – it should carry on throughout the whole ‘recruitment’ process and beyond.

For schemes, like ITV Work Inspiration, the importance is even more so. They are the future of the business (and the industry). With a process from attraction to actual experience taking around 10 months – that’s a big challenge to keep the engagement alive.

So rather than us blathering on about it. We’re going to leave it to some of the engaged candidates to show how powerful it can be. After all, if picture is worth a thousand words, here’s around 20,000 words of screenshots:

@ITVinspiration has been shortlisted at the RADS 2013 for the Emerging Talent Campaign. Will it follow in the footsteps of ITV Experience which won the inaugural award in this category last year? We’ll find out on Thursday. Fingers crossed.